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Thursday, 7 August 2014

Four Million Ukrainians in Combat Area, on Verge of Humanitarian Catastrophe - Russia

UNITED NATIONS, August 6 (RIA Novosti) - Four million people are in
the combat area in eastern Ukraine, and 200,000 of them are deprived of
water, Russia’s UN envoy Vitaly Churkin said Tuesday at an emergency UN
Security Council session on the humanitarian situation in Ukraine.

“About four million people are in the war zone [in Ukraine.] Over
200,000 of them are deprived of potable water. Sanitary and
epidemiological situation is critical in Luhansk,” Churkin said.

According to Russia’s UN envoy, residential houses have no
electricity or water supply, water is not decontaminated, landline and
mobile communications are cut, refuse is not removed.

“Ukrainian nationals are leaving the country in masses,”
Churkin said and precised that since the start of the crisis almost
800,000 people have crossed the border with Russia and have stayed
there. “The number of people who applied to the migration services to
legalize their stay is up to 170,000.”

Despite international arrangements, including April 17 Geneva Accords
and Berlin 2 Accords, signed by the Ukrainian authorities, Kiev
continues “scaling up military activities at the expense of hundreds and thousands of lives.”

“With that, according to the available information, the key role here
is played by the punitive squads that do not directly obey by the
Ukrainian Military Forces’ orders, but by the orders of the country’s
odious Security Council and local oligarchs sponsoring it,” Churkin
stressed.

He added that airstrikes became a day-to-day business, as well as the
use of artillery, tanks, multiple rocket launchers, phosphorus bombs.
“Residential areas and infrastructure are shelled. In many cities up to
80 percent of the houses have been destroyed. Overall, according to the
modest estimates, over 600 buildings have been destroyed,” Churkin said.

According to a report by the mission of the United Nations Office for
the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), since the start of the
special operation in eastern Ukraine in mid-April, a total of 1,367
people have been killed and another 4,087 wounded, including 2,589
civilians and 29 children.

Kiev has been conducting a military operation targeting Luhansk and
Donetsk regions, which refused to recognize the legitimacy of the new
government and chose to pursue independence.

The operation has also forced 117,000 Ukrainians to flee their homes
and cross into neighboring Russia in search of shelter. Nearly 3.9
million people who stayed are now trapped in the combat zone.

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